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destructibility

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[di-struhkt-uh-bil-i-tee] / dɪˌstrʌkt əˈbɪl ɪ ti /

noun

  1. the quality or degree of being susceptible to being destroyed, especially rapidly or easily.


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He was across the table from another tough leader who has knocked his way to the top and knows the destructibility of politicians and their dreams.

From Time Magazine Archive

This notion of the destructibility of Mind implies the possibility of its defilement; but how can infinite Mind be defiled?

From Unity of Good by Eddy, Mary Baker

If we include land under this term, we must make it an exception to the rule of destructibility.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates

Another reason why money has never been popular with us is because of its destructibility.

From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

She knows, as well as the poet, that destructibility is not one of nature’s words; that it is only the relationship of things—tangibility, visibility—that are transitory.

From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Gilchrist, Anne Burrows

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